The second Diuision.
Ansvvere to the Admonition Pag. 90. Sect. 1.
But how if it may be proued that Iohn did baptise some without* 1.1 preaching vnto them? In that third Chap. of Matthew vers. 5. and. 6. we read that all Ierusalem and al Iudea, and all the region round aboute Iordan, wente out to be baptised of him, and that they were baptised of him in Iordan, confessing their sinnes: but we reade not, that he did immediatly before preach vnto them.
T. C. Pag. 125. Lin. 5.
Secondarily you saye that it doth not appeare, that he preached immediatly before he baptised them with water, And yet S. Mathew after that he had shewed, that he preached repentaunce, (which the other Euangelists call the baptisme of repentance) he addeth, that then the people were baptised of him, whiche also may appeare by the. 19. of the Acts, vers. 5. where S. Paule noteth this order to haue bin kept. For although betweene the story of his preaching, and that whiche is sayde, of his baptising, there is enterlaced a description of his dyet, and of his apparrell, yet these wordes (then came vnto him. &c.) must needes be referred vnto the time whiche followed hys preaching.
I doubt not but that Iohn preached vnto them oftner than once, or twice before he did baptise them: for else should he haue baptised them being infidels: but it may wel be gathered by those places of Sainct Mathew, that he did not immediatly preache vnto them before baptisme, which is that that I affirme. For the authors of the Ad∣monition séeme to condemne the administration of our sacramentes, bycause the word is not always preached immediatly before they be ministred.
I vnderstād not how you can gather any such order out of that. 19. of Actes, vers. 5. except you cal questioning preaching. For S. Paule there doth question with them, asking them whither they had receiued the holy Ghost, or no, and vnto what they were baptised? there is no mention of any sermon preached, for any thing that I can espie. Moreouer it is daungerous to vnderstand that place of the Sacrament of bap∣tisme,* 1.2 least we should séeme to admitte rebaptisation, and to fal into the heresie of the Anabaptists, who vse this plars for that purpose or else thinke that there is so greate difference betwixt the baptisme of Iohn, and the baptisme of Christ, that suche as were baptised with the baptisme of Iohn, had néede againe 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 baptized with the baptisme of Christ, which opinion some hold being deceiued by this place: There∣fore that it may appeare how vnaptly you haue alleadged this place for your pur∣pose, and what suspition you haue giuen either of the Anabaptisticall rebaptisati∣on, or Papisticall difference betwixte the baptisme of Iohn, and the baptisme of